A collection of 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks may be the earliest evidence of ivory tool production ever ...

They were probably made from the tusks of a mammoth species called Mammuthus trogontherii. The artifacts are fairly small. Additionally, ivory is a relatively soft material, especially compared to ...

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths. The Paleolithic titans were just one animal that made survival ...

M. primigenius diverged from the steppe mammoth, M. trogontherii, about 200,000 years ago in eastern Asia. Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant. The appearance and behaviour of this ...